Game Breaker/Anime and Manga

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Examples of Game Breakers in Anime and Manga include:

  • Yu-Gi-Oh!: Noah's deck master Shinato's Ark is this all the way. First, whenever an opponent attacks Noah directly, he gets to special summon a monster in the Graveyard to block the attack, and can do this once for each monster in the Graveyard. Second, he can outright remove all the monsters in both Graveyards from play to gain 500 Life Points for each one. And then when the Ark is destroyed, Shinato itself is summoned. Whenever Shinato destroys a monster, the opponent's Life Points are cut in half and Noah's points increase by the same amount. When the opponent takes battle damage, Noah gains the same amount of points they lost. Whenever Shinato would be destroyed it moves back off the field into the Deck Master position, so it effectively cannot be destroyed. Oh, and it has 3300 ATK points. No wonder Noah became the first duelist in the show to get over 10,000 Life Points.
    • Yugi is only able to defeat it by getting his Obnoxious Celtic Guardian (which can't be destroyed by any monster with higher than 1900 ATK points) on the field to soak up damage for a bit, then tricking Noah into attacking a facedown Cyber Jar that removes all monsters on the field from play (though Shinato has yet another a special ability that lets Noah stay in the duel despite its destruction, and still use its abilities). To make a long story short, Yugi then gets Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon on the field, attacks, uses De-Fusion to summon the 3 Blue-Eyes White Dragons, then attacks with all three of them, hitting Noah for a total of 10,000 damage points.
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Giorno Giovanna's final stand, Gold Experience Requiem, is a literal example of this. With this stand no action, process, ability, ANYTHING, can cause Giorno harm, nowhere, nohow, even defying time and space to protect itself and it's user. Nothing can touch him, and the consequences for being killed by it are even WORSE.
  • Mahou Sensei Negima does a Shout-Out to this concept with Jack Rakan, who's so absurdly powerful that the other characters start referring to him as broken.

Chisame: This guy is so broken it's not even funny!

  • In a similar instance to Jack Rakan, Priscilla from Claymore is broken enough that she can probably thrash an Eldritch Abomination among Eldritch Abominations. Against regular enemies, she even states she finds it difficult to go easy enough to avoid killing them.
  • Aizen Sousuke from Bleach is referred to as "Captain Broken" by fans thanks to his absolutely ridiculous ability to completely control the senses of anyone who sees him release his sword even once. And that's one of his low-level abilities. And, of course, he also managed to block the hero's most powerful attack with one finger.
    • He also manages to damn near kill a fellow captain using a high-power hado (destructive art) without performing the full incantation, which means that the technique was 1/3 its normal strength.
  • Shakugan no Shana: On the Comic Book Rumbles board, Shana's fuzetsu is considered a game breaker, as it allows her to essentially render any character not immune to it helpless.
  • There are debatedly many Devil Fruits in One Piece which can be considered this, but none more so than Blackbeard's Yami Yami no Mi (Dark Dark Fruit). In rough order, it gives the user control over gravity (i.e. letting the darkness suck in absolutely anything), allows them to cancel out other Devil Fruit abilities, and most recently, it's allowed Blackbeard to obtain the Devil Fruit ability of the recently-deceased Whitebeard, the Gura Gura no Mi (Quake Quake Fruit), which is acknowledged as a power that can destroy the entire world. Needless to say, someone lucked out in the Superpower Lottery.
    • And even that has it's weakness, being that it inverses the standard rule of Logia types - instead of being able to dodge all attacks (excluding maybe one polar-opposite element), he can't dodge anything.
  • In the Angelic Layer manga, Blanche's Hyper Mode is considered a Game Breaker. Oddly enough, she's allowed to compete in national Angelic Layer tournaments and use the ability, and the game's creator is not enraged, but rather, fascinated by it.
  • Future GPX Cyber Formula: Hayato's Lifting Turn, in which, with v-Asurada AKF-0's effect fans, elevates the car and floats around the turn. It can also float around its opponents, giving Hayato tremendous advantage.
  • The Mangekyo Sharingan and Rinnegan from Naruto can both be considered Game Breakers. Also recently shown Kabutomaru's use of Edo Tensei, which allows him to ressurrect an army of uber powerful zombies that can't be killed unless one summons a death god to rip the souls out of them. Unless you know them well enough to emotionally move them, or Kabuto hasn't put a special seal inside their head.
    • Naruto's Nine-Tailed Chakra Mode. Too many examples to list...
    • As for Kabutomaru's Edo Tensei zombies, special mention goes to the real Uchiha Madara, who has both the sharingan and rinnegan, as well as the Shodai Hokage's Mokuton ability.
  • In A Certain Magical Index, Accelerator's esper ability is pretty much a total Game Breaker. He can control the vector values of anything he touches. He can increase/decrease the speed, change the direction and gravity of where it goes and control how much force feedback it can cause. Including his own body. He just has to touch you to cause severe harm to your innards. And woe betide anyone who is or gets wounded in a fight against him. In that case he will touch your wound, making contact with your blood. Then he'll just reverse the flow of the blood circulation, killing you in a very horrible way. And to top the whole thing: his powers are automatic so anything that tries to hit him hits back to where it came from. HARD. When a character can theoretically fly and survive a nuclear bomb dropped directly on him without breaking a sweat, you know you don't want to oppose him...
  • Kazuya Aoi, the protagonist of the manga Freezing, has his Advance Freezing that can freeze fighters even in Pandora Mode to actually be able to let Satellizer hit her opponents. Unfortunately, this also means that other Pandora users gun for him first.
  • Kenshin's master Hiko Seijurou from Rurouni Kenshin was described by his creator as being this; he has an extremely powerful sword style and the physical capability to use it fully and could probably beat every villain in the series before lunch if he felt so inclined. He never does, though- he was also designed to be extremely anti-social so that he almost never gets involved, preventing the series from being really short.
  • In the Gundam franchise, the Turn A and Turn X completely overpower anything else in the series. Here's a partial list of their abilities: self-repair via nanomachines, teleportation, thrusters equal in strength to a battleship's, bending light to briefly turn invisible, I-fields that can even block kinetic weaponry, and, of course, the infamous "Moonlight Butterfly", which knocked Earth back into the stone age in one fell swoop. These mobile suits were designed for the explicit purpose of interstellar warfare, each expected to take on the military forces of an entire planet and win. All this from an ostensibly Real Robot series.
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